Improvement in dust-guards for car-windows



na 0 E2 Patented July 29, 1879.

J. H. REYNOLDS. Dust-Guard for Gar-Window. No. 2| 064;

W WW W UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN H. REYNOLDS, OF TROY, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN DUST-GUARDS FOR CAR-WINDOWS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 218,064, dated July 29,1879 application filed June 11, 1879.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN H. REYNOLDS, of Troy, in the county ofRensselaer and State of New York, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements on Dust-Guards for Car- Windows, of which the following isa full and exact description.

My invention relates to certain improvements on the device described inthe Letters Patent of the United States No. 211,523, granted to me onthe 21st day of January,

1879; and its object is to remedy certain defects existing in thatdevice, wherein I have found that when the pivoted edge of the dustguardis brought sufficiently close to the side of the car to form a jointclose enough to exclude the dust from passing through it the paint onthe side of the car will be chafed and damaged by the movement of theguard to such degree as-to appear unsightly when the guard is removed orturned back against. the side of the car.

To remedy this defect my invention consists in making the guard so thatits pivoted edge will not come in contact with the side of the car, andclosing the space thus left by means of a stationary flange-piecesecured to the side of the car, and so arranged that the side of thepivoted edge of the guard will form a dust-tight joint therewith.

It further consists in combining with the pintles and sockets springsarranged to keep the pintles in close contact with the sockets, so as toprevent the rattling noise usually produced by them.

In the accompanying drawings, which form a part of this specification,and to which reference is herein made, Figure 1 is an elevation of oneside of a car-window, showing the extended dust-guard in section; Fig.2, a vertical section at the line at m, Fig. 1; Fig. 3, a horizontalsection at the line y y, Fig. 1; and Figs. 4, 5, and 6, enlargeddetails, showing the construction of the pintles and sockets.

As shown in the drawings, A is the dustguard, made substantially asdescribed in my patent hereinbefore referred to. Secured to the back ofsaid guard are the pintles B and B, whose upper parts, b, are made witha cross-section of rectangular or other suitable form for locking theguard in position. Their lower parts. I), are made of a cylindrical formto serve as hinge-pins.

The pintle B is provided at its lower end with a stop. b projecting in aline with the guard A, and arranged at sufiicient distance from thesquare part b of the pintle to permit the cylindrical part b to turn inthe socket.

The sockets O are made with a rectangular opening for receiving thesquare parts I) of the pintles. At the back side of the opening aspring, D, is arranged to press the square of the pintle against thefront of the opening, and, by keeping these parts in close contact,prevent the rattling of them.

E is a guard-stri p, provided with a standing flange, e, at one or bothedges. This strip I preferably adapt to receive the sockets G, as shownin the drawings.

The guard-strip, sockets, and dust-guard are severally arranged so thatthe pivoted side of the dust-guard will lie snugly against the face ofthe flange 6 when the guard is extended, and the rear edge of the guardwill be kept away from the side of the car, as shown in Fig. 3. In thismanner a dust-tight joint is formed without endangering the externalornamentation of the car.

The operation of closing, extending, and removing the dust-guard isfully described in my former patent above referred to.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. The combination, with a hingeddustguard, of a guard-strip, E, provided with one or more standingflanges, 0, adapted to form a dust-tight joint with said dust-guard, asherein specified.

2. The combination, with the pintle B, of the socket 0, provided withthe spring D, as and for the purpose herein specified.

JOHN H. REYNOLDS.

Witnesses:

WILLIAM H. Low, E. F. BENHAM.

